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THE ONE RIGHT WAY 



The One Right Way 



BY 



KATHERINE HARRUB ATHERTON 




CARSON CITY, NEVADA 
1913 



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Copyrighted, 1913, by 
KATHERINE HARRUB ATHERTON 



Carson City News 
Carson City, Nev> 



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This is a story never old, 
Everywhere on sea and land it's told. 
Tis grand. Let it be in the hearts of man. 
It is by God given. — It can't be sold. 
On life's journey for God and man, do all 
you can. 



PREFACE. 



'Twas many days ago there dwelt upon the 
earth God's messengers from above. They fore- 
told His wondrous works of love. His great 
teachings by the deeds of man were taught ; they 
were given, they were not bought. To some they 
went as all for naught. It was not by man, but 
by God they were being taught. These were not 
the ways of the land, the people thought them 
very grand. 

The blind were made to see, the lame to walk, 
the speechless how to talk. Ah! indeed, He 
leadeth me. If the same today were only 
thought, there would be more honor in man — 
they could not be bought. 

We came to this earth to do what we can. 



Preface 

Some say, "what care I for God or man." 
The thoughtless say, "there is no other land." 
but the followers of God, not man, go faithfully 
on and say, "I shall do all I can." 

Fear thou not the criticism of fellow man, too 
many this has already prevented from doing all 
they can. Oh God, that this may some day be a 
happy land. 



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BOOK ONE 



CHAPTER ONE 

Our life has just begun. 

A terrible race we've got to run 

At the rising of the Son. 

This story is laid from a plot lived in our pres- 
ent day in a little Western City almost completely 
surrounded by mountains, the serenity of which 
is not disturbed by the noisy din of the busy 
city. In it there is not such a lot, it's nature's 
own, and for God and man a home. 

It is situated in the United States, the country 
which floats the emblem of God, itself and man. 

This emblem alone should make everyone want 



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for their sins to atone. It has never trailed in 
the dust, for on high God has said to float it 
must. 

It is the promise from God to man, for every- 
one in this whole land, be he rich or great, it is 
never too late. 

Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be 
white as snow. Oh ! can't you see ? Be he rich 
or poor, high or low, black or white, he shall be 
led from the darkness into the light, from the 
wrong each one to do right. Ye, to God must go. 
He has told you so. 

It all commenced by a sad mistake and surely 
from happiness us it did take; but even now as 
then, it is not too late. 

There dwelt in a home upon this land, a couple, 
(I can't write of all, 'twould be too grand) who 
were very happy and apparently blessed with all 
of earth's desires. 

Into this home there came some friends of the 
devil, not of God or man. 'Twas no longer the 
happiest in the land. 

To the four points of the compass they scat- 
tered, nothing to God or man mattered, till one 



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day the world no longer bore its rosy hue, they 
began to think, then at their sins they could no 
longer wink. What should they do ? Ah ! that 
'twere only a 'dream, but 'twas all too true. 

Both homes were scattered, but to a friend this 
never mattered, till one day some earthly ones 
said this friendship must be shattered. 

'Twas then the struggle on this earth began, 
the race between the devil and God we ran. We 
were tried in many forms, we were roughly 
tossed by various storms, but silently on her 
way, went our friend, for to her own business 
they told her she had to tend. She went back 
once then again; only a little assistance she 
wanted to lend, and help some of them their ways 
to mend. 

The devil only, spoke, kk such principle was but 
a joke/' Then it was again that God spoke, 
"why weepest thou?" Ye cannot always tell the 
other fellow how." But the friend said "I can, 
I will, I shall and it must be now." 

Life's burden had indeed become great. Friend 
feared it was too late, but to God she said : u l 
still defy this fate:' 



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It was then the thought came, I might say how 
but not when. It's never too late. — Never too 
late our ways to mend. 

It seemed as if the whole earth had turned 
into a living lie, and to reform this, Friend said 
she'd try. For a time, she gave herself up to 
prayer, this she could do everywhere. Often 
you'd see her stand and sigh, but her heart was 
filled with the light and love of God, she was 
getting her help from on high. 

She had had a home, a mother and many 
friends; they had gone, she was bereaft. She 
looked around, there seemed to be nothing left. 
To be very frank, the future seemed but a blank. 
What was to be the game? 

For days and nights she wondered; some of 
the past she knew she had squandered. Oh ! 
how to forget the same. She had only a name. 

Again to God she prayed, herself for her sins 
sins she flayed, and God came and said : "What 
is it that you dread ? Why weepest thou ? What 
makes you cry? Have you not life's journey 
tread? Did you not try?" Friend thought 
again and said: "My ways I'll mend." Then 



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God spake to her again and said : "What makes 
you worry? Don't you know there is no hurry? 
Be it here or there, it shall be everywhere. You 
have done your best, you can do no more/' 
Friend thought a while and then she said: "Not 
so, for me there can be no rest. 'Tis true, I have 
done my best, but I must do as my Savior who 
went before, I must not only help myself, but I 
must help more. He saved himself, and he saved 
man. Say you now I have done what I can?" 

The struggle I must begin. To do the most 
good, we must scatter the sin. Nothing she did 
was right, the future looked anything but bright ; 
then she thought, did she not do right? Had 
she not an honor that could not be bought ? Each 
time a new trial was placed, a harder struggle 
had to be faced, but only more firmly herself 
she braced as she said : "It shall be as God sees 
fit and best. He shall help me with the rest; 
lead me from the darkness into the light, for I 
shall do what is right, — I shall try with all my 
might." 

Once only she tried to speak, but again it all 
went for naught. Then God said: "Surely My 



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assistance I'll lend, for I see you can teach. They 
must be taught; their ways they have got to 
mend." 



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CHAPTER TWO. 

Oh! happy land. 

Is God's promise not grand? 

It is to man. 

Friend went on her way this very day. Her 
mission was to her fellow man. She was the 
happiest in all the land. At first there seemed 
nothing to do ; she became discouraged and blue, 
but she bravely said: "To succeed I shall, this 
is true." 

One day in her travels she got a chance a 
kindly word to speak. 'Twas but the first till 
there came to her a man who seemed much 
troubled, then there was a friendly thought and 
Friend wondered if he could be taught. She 
turned on her path and went back to the troubled 
man and said : "Is there anything I can do ? I 
will if I can." 

The man was puzzled as he thought of a 
helping hand, but he silently thought such a one 



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does not belong upon this land, she is teaching, 
I can be taught ; her help is from God it can't be 
bought ; to me it cannot go for nought. 

They placed their hands together, for a time 
there seemed to be nothing to do whatever. Then 
they said to each other, "what is it you hope to 
do? Is what you have told me true? You have 
found you are not too late for a place on God's 
high estate? Ah! God grant this shall be my 
fate." 

Then it was that our friend rose in her just 
indignation and said: "would you indeed be 
content to always say 'by God I was led ?' ' Can 
you not see? Oh! what a victory to be able to 
say, I am leading for God — for a time I was 
led — It is His way. 

Then her troubled friend silently and carefully 
thought, "You speak as the words of wisdom, 
you are teaching. By God indeed you have been 
taught. To me, at least, your words shall not go 
for naught ; they have been given, such cannot 
be bought." 

Their paths then did part, on life's journey 
then they did start, and the one to the other did 



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say as they went on their way : "I shall hope to 
see you again some day." 

The thought came to her, "something can be 
given even to them that hath." 

There came along her path one day, a woman. 
She thought there is my chance, she saw it at a 
glance. She only said : "All is not right ; I 
shall have to try to make her life more bright. 
She already hath, but something can be given. 
We'll have to make a fight, for we'll have to lead 
from the darkness into the light," so she resolved 
to try with all her might. 

At first the way seemed dark indeed. It 
became constantly more apparent the devil was 
in the lead. Friend only said : "I shall do right, 
I shall lead from the darkness into the light and 
in the end we'll both do right and see then if 
from his hold we can't be freed?" 

The race started, life's journed we had begun. 
The devil had the lead. Very deep in this heart 
he seemed to have sowed the seed. One day we 
would teach, the next we were taught, and at 
times, it did indeed seem it would all go for 
naught. 



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Could she not be taught? The harder and 
faster grew the race. Others entered. More than 
one Friend had to face. She only thought, what 
is this, a three cornered race? Not so, a whole 
band had entered on this land, and friend was 
but a single hand. The odds against her were 
very great. Still her only thought, "can't she 
be taught? — Oh! what a fate." But she stoutly 
said, "it shall never be too late." 

Friend went silently on her way. One day 
she was teaching, the next she was being taught. 
'Twas then she saw she too was running a race. 
'Twas not the ones on earth she was afraid to 
face, but on God's High Estate she was trying 
to win a place. 

God has shown us, it is never too late — 

Such can be to all our fate. 

He is might, He will show us right 

Out of the darkness into the light. 

He leadeth me. He has said it's got to be. 

This race you have run, it you have won. 

Your work is not finished, it's just begun. 



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CHAPTER THREE 

My work has just begun. 
What can the matter be? 
What haven't I done? 

Friend was sorely troubled, her faith in God 
was unshaken, her race with man she had won, 
still her work had just begun. 

Her resources seemed exhausted till one day, 
she heard a voice say, 4 'you have helped God 
and man, — for the children, now, do what you 
can. Sometimes they are teachers, sometimes 
they are being taught. Oh ! do what you can that 
their efforts shall not go for naught. They are 
not all teachers some can be taught." 

Ah! happy thought; they said that I could 
teach, I could be taught. The first one came to 
hand, he was one of God's children on this 
land. For months he sighed, and well he tried, 
good efforts he made, but soon his ardour began 
to fade. 

Another came, with God's gifts he was not so 



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blessed, but he had the rest. He tried till one day 
success was his. He forgot he had been taught. 
Now he was a teacher. He seemed to have no 
other thought. He could be no longer taught. 

Friend sadly thought: "What have I begun? 
Are these teachings going all for naught ? What 
have I done?" 

Another came, his life thus far was carelessly 
spent, on success alone, you could see he was 
bent. To him our aid was lent. To us we knew 
he had been sent. He was not a teacher, he 
could be taught. 

His lessons were given, they could not be 
bought. The days went wearily by, his efforts 
were great, we knew it was not too late if he 
would but try. 

Success within his grasp, it came at last; 
nothing for him there seemed to do. Unfortun- 
ately this seemed too true, till one day there was 
a chance, he saw it at a glance. The work was 
menial, the pay was poor. This duty he bravely 
performed ; for something better we all knew he 
mourned. Still one day success came our way, 
and then into God's world he did stray. 



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"I am a teacher, I have been taught, was his 
one thought." These teachings shall not go all 
for naught. His work has just begun, he worked 
hard, had had little fun, but it heralded the rising 
of a son. His wish, another victory soon to be 
won, his work is not finished, though well he 
has done. 

Life's pathway is sometimes rugged and steep, 
the world is at our feet, we must rise to the 
occasion, the masses we must meet, each one the 
other, with a friendly smile we have got to 
greet. This, to drive away eternal sleep. 

Our acquaintances are many, our friends are 
few. To make it the other way, is what we have 
to do. It is the old way and not the new. Is it 
not God's way? Is it not true? 

Sometimes we're happy, sometimes we're blue, 
sometimes we can make others happy, this we 
have got to do. Oh ! this is true. If it can't 
be many, let it be few ; if its only one, far better 
this than none. 

It is our duty to man, we must do what we 
can. Then we cannot fail to be happy on this 
land. The outcome cannot help but be very 
grand. 



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Sometimes we're rich, sometimes we're poor, 
sometimes we have little, sometimes more. But 
remember, if we have only a name, God loves 
us just the same. 

It may not be here, it may not be there, but 
God has said it shall be everywhere. Be brave 
and strong and true, this we have got to do. Tt 
is the old teachings, it's not the new, that are 
among too few. If your friend cannot see the 
way, give him a helping hand, this will make 
you one of the happiest on the land, — try it 
some day. 

In all our hearts, He's sowed the seed of love, 
it is a gift we have been given from above. There 
shall always be another day, but there is just one 
right way. Do what you can, do what you may, 
this is what we all have got to say: "Ye can 
teach, if ye can be taught, but such lessons must 
be given, they can't be bought. God's works 
shall not go for naught." 



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BOOK TWO 



CHAPTER FOUR. 

Some are sad, and some are glad. 
No matter what, if they're good or bad 
To each and every one be kind 
For in all hearts, love is entwined. 

Look and ye shall find. No matter what they 
say or do, just never mind. Sometimes its not 
very kind, but remember that every cloud is 
silvery lined. 

They do not always come to your door. Some 
need a little help, some need more ; but remember, 
it matters not if I have ever seen you before, 
you shall always be welcome to a part of my 
store. 

It shall not be here or there, Oh! let it be 
everywhere. If it can't be me, let it be you, we 
have all got to see what we can do. 

If you can't do it alone, remember there is one 



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who is always at home, and who shall help 

everyone for their sins to atone. 

You have been told, if you will but ask, that 

the evil within us shall be outcast. We have 
got to climb our mast, we cannot live in a dead, 

sad past. Joy has got to come to each, be it first 
or last. Oh, be willing, — let it come fast. This 
is not beyond our reach, as there is always some- 
one who is willing to teach. 

The road is rough and steep, but its the only 
way to avoid eternal sleep. 

The time is ripe, when all have got to do 
whats right. We have only to try with all our 
might, and we shall be led from the darkness 
into the light. 

This is no dream, no matter how to you it 
may seem. This is a message from above sent 
to you on earth by a God of love. He will show 
you the way, for ye must go to Him some day. 

We must help ourselves, and God, and man. 
Can you tell me how this is? See if you can? 
This, by each and every one can be easily done, 
try it, and see then what a victory has been won. 

Will you be sorry to know your work will 



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never be done? In reality, it shall just be begun. 

Be careful how we sow the seed; to go back 
the way is long indeed. We can reap a crop, till 
this is done, never stop. It might not be much, 
but remember, with God we have got to get in 
touch. 

No matter if the way is long indeed, to be 
guided safely over is what we need, so that from 
care and trouble we can be freed. 

Our home must be built on a foundation of 
rock, so that at our doors, success can knock. 
Oh ! that ye can be able to turn the lock and let 
it in, think what it would be, thus to win. 

Each one has his own sorrow. This of our 
neighbor we never have to borrow. Get over 
ours today, we might be able to help the other 
fellow tomorrow. He might not be as strong 
as we ; but he is willing to be shown. Oh ! can't 
you see, he too wants to be free? If it can't be 
you then let it be me, for a help to all is what 
we want to be. 

We shall often look back upon our past; but 
let us be able to say, "I have won at last." 



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We are given many a test, we have only to 
do our best. 

We have many duties, we can have little rest ; 
but are we not hoping that some day our lives, 
by God, shall be blessed? 

There is no particular way, just take what 
comes to hand each day. Don't try to follow 
what the other fellow's say, go ahead and do 
what's right, work with all your might and soon 
you'll see a light. You cannot hope to win 
without an awful fight if you want to reach 
that place where there is no night. 

Sometimes our duties are not of our choice, 
in this we have no voice. The work that comes 
to hand is what we have got to land, then we 
can go on to something more grand. 

Each day there's new work to be done and a 
different kind of victory to be won. Sometimes 
there's pleasure, sometimes pain, but we can 
always ask One and it shall not be in vain. He 
gives it measure for measure. 

He is kind and he is just, in Him place all 
your trust. 

Some of our work is done badly, some we do 



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well, but it is not how that we can tell. There 
are many ups and many downs, some have 
smiles and some have frowns, some are good 
and some are bad; but no two just the same 
experience have had. 

It is not for us to say how the other fellow 
shall do, he has first to himself and to God to 
be true. It is the old way that we have got to 
come to some day. This we have got to do. 

Help yourself, help God, and help man. Can 
you then fail to be one of the happiest in the 
land? Get rid of your own troubles today, you 
might be able to help the other fellow tomorrow. 
Give your assistance, don't let him have to bor- 
row. If you will only try, help shall come to 
each and every one from on high. This is given, 
it we can't buy, 'twill help us into eternity to fly 
where we'll have a home above, in which dwells 
our God of love. — Let us try. 

Our day may be distant, it may be nigh. At 
our fate don't sit down and cry. Just go on and 
patiently wait. You will have better luck at a 
not far distant date. Let yours' be a happy fate. 



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CHAPTER FIVE. 

She was a stranger, they took her in, 
They did not think that she could win. 
Now she waits the victorious day 
When we can see what they will say. 

She had no earthly home, unfortunately she 
seemed to be alone. She was willing ; she wanted 
to be shown. 

Night after night, and day after day, many and 
varied things to keep up her hope did we say, 
even then we couldn't tell how the land with us 
would lay. We knew there was only one right 
way. 

She believed in God, she believed in man, but 
she couldn't say "I have done what I can." Her 
thoughts were sad and deep, many times she 
had little sleep. The road before her seemed to 
be rough and steep. Something had to be done, 
the difficulties we had to meet. Our work was 
to be begun. 

Her life, to her, had seemed lonely and sad. 



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She had tried to be good, she didn't want to 
be had. She couldn't tell why, but now she was 
so anixous to try. She wanted to make a new 
start; in reality she wanted to go back and do 
her part, for love dwelt deep within her heart. 

For a time all went well, till one day, into the 
hands of some wayward friends she did stray. 
They were kind, she thought they were true so 
she gave up the old friends for the new. 

We felt in us she did no longer trust; but 
Oh, we wanted to help her — we felt we must. 

We asked why, we thought she meant to be 
just, but only lower and lower we were laid in 
the dust. 

What had we done ? Oh ! why this mistrust ? 
Weren't we going to be able to finish what we 
had begun? 

Sad and heavy indeed was the old friends 
heart, but bravely she went on determined to 
do her part. She thought long and earnestly and 
wondered what she had done. There seemed 
no hope that she could say, "I have won." But 
she only said, I am not finished, I have begun. 

These two friends parted, the distance between 



32 The One Right Way. 

them was great, the one had gone to another 
state ; still we knew it was not too late. 

Day after day just rolled away, there was 
nothing the old friend could do or say, her 
heart was heavy, her burden was great, but she 
only prayed that all might have a happy fate. 
She knew not what she had done, a friend she 
had lost but a victory she had won. She had 
started her on the way, but she could not be with 
her on the first victorious day. The one friend 
had listened to what others had had to say. It 
came about in the month of May. 

The old friend was very sad, she only said: 
"I never knew I was so very bad." Her head 
was now bowed in sorrow, but stoutly she said, 
"I'll not live in the yesterdays, I'll go on to the 
tomorrow." She said her ways she'd try to mend. 
Such assistance as she could, she'd lend. She 
handn't much strength, but to do good she'd go 
any length. She now stands alone, but for her 
errors she's more than willing to atone, and she 
only asks of the God above, that she shall be 
shown. 

'Twas now with her as when a little child, 



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and she humbly and silently prayed that God 
might hear the prayer she filed. She didn't 
have long to wait for help came to her e'er it 
was too late. She thought she had to stand 
alone, but many friends she was speedily shown, 
and she only said, "this I have never known, 
but surely there has been some good seed sown." 

She was taken in; she was made to feel at 
home, and she knew then that as long as she 
lived, she would never be alone. She might not 
have an earthly friend or a home, but greater 
than all of these had she been shown. She 
lived and hoped for the best, she trusted in God 
to help her with the rest. Her friends proved to 
be many, her enemies were few, and she deter- 
mined to go on and see what good that she 
could do. She said: "I'll forget the past and 
live for the tomorrow to the last. And may 
it be forever, as I hope that with this One my 
friendship shall never be severed." 

"Tis not an earthly tie, it is given to us all 
from on high. We have nothing to do — only 
just to try. We are never alone, such help is 
always nigh. 



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They might think of me as they may, but of 
their thoughts I have nothing whatever to say. 
There is not a straw in their path that I would 
lay; but if they don't for me, for themselves, I 
hope they'll pray. 

I can't be liked by you all, but remember, 
that we each and every one must wait till we 
hear from above our call, be he rich or poor, 
great or small, Oh! thank God that into such 
kindly hands we shall fall. 

He will never turn us away but wait most 
patiently to hear what we have got to say. Let 
it be of every one, some good on that great day. 

He judges us as we judge you, but it is His 
privilege, its not for me or you, though there are 
many other things that we can do ; but we have 
to Him, first of all, to be true. 



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CHAPTER SIX. 

She was a friend and they turned her out 
She couldn't, they wouldn't tell what 'twas all about. 
She hadn't much physical strength, spiritually she 
was very stout. 

The day is at hand, the time is nigh when you 
can all help, as did she, from on high. Ye must 
not say "I can't," but you must say "I shall try;" 
for to God first, then to man we shall fly. 

It is not by the aid of wings, it is not by the 
order of kings; but it is by doing good even 
though they be little things, that success, to each 
and every one brings. 

What is it that the angels sing? Is it a song 
of love or are they the stories of old sent you 
from above? Sometimes them we sing and 
happiness they do bring, sometimes them we 
pray but do we always realize just what we 
say? It's not always the prayer that's written 



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but its the prayer that guides us each day. 
'Tis the prayer we live, our willingness, our help 
to give. This to God is known, it is not necess- 
ary for any one else to be shown. He is our 
judge. His opinions of us we can't budge. We 
are his messengers. 

There are many things we have got to do, if 
it can't be something old, let it be something 
new. If it has been something done, something 
else must be immediately begun. There has got 
to be another rising of the Son. 

Ye are all aiming for the same mountain 
height, some have heavy burdens, some have 
light; but remember, we have got to help our- 
selves and the others with all our might. 

Today they might succeed, we cannot always 
tell when we might find them in need, though 
everyone should know, in our hearts has been 
sowed a friendly seed, that they to us can go. 

Can we find this on earth? Ah yes. Though 
this, to each other, very few have dared to con- 
fess. Little they know how wrongly they speak, 
lest the other fellow might say: "She acts like 
a freak." This is not the part of our fellow man, 



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this it not what's buried deep within our heart, 
we know we've got to do what we can. 

Hear thou me, it has got to be, for He leadeth 
me. This is the way from our sins we can be 
free, this is the way that God has said it shall be. 

They might treat us wrongly today but let it 
go, and let there be nothing you have to say; it 
can do no good to tell them so ; quietly look and 
go away. If they have done you wrong ask God 
to forgive, for to atone they have got to live. 

If you have done your best ye can have no 
concern about the rest. But if in turn you've 
done them no wrong, remember they shall have 
to come to you before so very long. Ye may 
not have given them money, this may seem to 
some to be very funny. What should they have 
to say, have they been with you all your life? 
Have they seen what you have done day by 
day? Can they then know what a rough road 
has been your way? 

'Tis not meant' how you have done, that they 
should say. 

Each one must live his life, be it one of pleas- 
ure or one of strife. We might help if we can, 



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but of it we must not tell our fellow man. Their 
sorrow is not yours, this you never wanted to 
borrow; but remember they have a chance to 
go on today as well as tomorrow. Sometimes ye 
have to be told, so you them from wrong can 
hold, for too often they are willing to satan to be 
sold. You are God's messenger, remember, to 
bring them back to His fold. 

They might be sorry that you know, but let 
them rejoice that only God and no one else can 
know. Let them know they have a friend to 
whom they can go and who is always willing 
her assistance to lend, but they must not be 
judges for if they are, their ways they'll have 
to mend. Ye cannot always tell how or why 
this assistance someone did send. Rather accept 
it and remember you have a friend. 

She might not be just as you wish, but by you 
she is not to be condemned, for have you not 
found her willing her ways to mend ? Have you 
sought to turn her in her path because she has 
now not the same, but rather have you wielded 
the blow that has told her she no longer to you 
can go ? Did you know that to God she can go ? 



The One Right Way. 39 

Or didn't the other fellows tell you so? 

There is a home always, at last, but live for 
the future not for the past. 

Many times very strangely we are placed, 
many and varied experiences we've faced, but 
may it be with the devil I've won, for valiently 
with him I've raced. 

Remember, if the one won't let you in, it is all 
right, for perhaps they are thinking that you 
they are keeping from sin. Let them know now 
there is a different way, let them begin. Ye 
can ask, they can win. This has been done, it's 
something that has been. Can't ye see now 
that ye all can win? There was the rising of 
the Son to save us from sin. 



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BOOK THREE 



CHAPTER SEVEN. 

We all know what has been. 
We do not know what is to be. 
If the evil is outcast, we win, 
Won't you be willing to see? 

She was only a little child, as soon as she 
could, a prayer with God she filed. It was not 
in words, 'twas born within, this had to be to 
help save her from sin. 

Little did she know what she had to face ; but 
for life's battle each day herself she did brace. 

For a time she had all that she desired, she 
only played and would get very tired. This had 
to be, that she might grow strong and many 
strange things be permitted to see 'eer so very 
long. Her mind began to grow, to her it seemed 
so slow, she was getting so she wanted to know. 

As the frail little body became more complete, 



42. The One Right Way. 

greater difficulties she had to meet. First, she 
had to be careful of what she did eat. They 
didn't want her to, but she kind of liked some- 
thing that was sweet. 

It wasn't her heart that was the troublesome 
part, it didn't reach up that far. Something- 
else, it was, that wasn't quite at par. 

They said it was because she couldn't chew, 
she wondered what they meant, that to her was 
all brand new. It wasn't so very long till some 
little teeth she grew, they came one by one, 
pretty soon she had a few. 'Twas then that she 
could eat something that to her was entirely 
new, because she had these little teeth with 
which she could chew. 

From whence did they come, she had no clew, 
but the older and wiser ones all thought they 
knew. It was a little seed that had been sowed 
within, that had to come forth to help to win. 

The first, they weren't so very good. Why 
this is, I've never quite understood, the second 
came before long. These were far more strong. 
Some they lasted fairly well, of the others I'd 
hate to tell. Real one, they couldn't buy, no 



The One Right Way. 43 

matter how hard we did try. The old ones, so 
bad we wanted to keep, even though sometimes 
they lost us some sleep. They said it was due 
to the candy that had been lying around too 
handy. 

This trouble seemed very bad, though 'twas 
nothing when compared with what others had 
had. 

She acquired a little age, 'twas then in her 
book she turned the page. There were many 
lessons for her to learn, some for her to teach, 
as things were not always just within her reach. 
To them she gave her own name, to the others 
it wasn't the same. She tried so hard to make 
them know and had such little power with which 
to show. Her words were few and there was 
constantly something that had to be learned that 
was new. 

They felt safe for a time, as to what they 
might say; but pretty soon she got so she'd ask 
them about it next day. We knew then she had 
learned some lessons, but neither how nor when. 
And the others some of their ways they'd have 



44 The One Right Way. 

to mend, so rightly on life's journey her they 
should send. 

At first she seemed to know no wrong, then 
temptation came in her way and it made of her, 
indeed, a sad little girl that day. She was always 
alone even though she loved everything that was 
in her home. She couldn't run quite as fast as 
they, so it was behind they generally wanted her 
to stay. She had some wooly cats who helped 
her to pass the time away, and she longed to 
have friends like other people some day. 

Misfortune came in that home, the fountain of 
wealth had fled, there was no one to blame; 
nothing to be said. 

Things went from bad to worse, it seemed as 
if there rested on them all a curse. They had 
plenty to eat, a place to sleep, but other sorrows 
they had to meet. 

One by one they went away, their own living 
to make each day. A little assistance they did 
lend, but it wasn't much else that they did say. 

At last they all had gone but one, and from 
the start, almost, it had been to work hard to 
the exclusion of nearly all her fun. 



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She murmured not, she did her best, she 
couldn't earn her own living but she could help 
the rest. The days were long, the strain was 
great but she only thought — is this my fate? 

She got through her school, she thought she 
had with her a powerful tool. She thought now 
she could make a start. The first, the pay was 
very small it was practically nothing at all. The 
next it wasn't so good but she said, why is it 
these things by me are not understood? There 
seemed little chance, there was nothing she could 
see at a glance. Where she was she was not at 
home, she had no money, things looked to her 
anything but funny. She had tried so hard, and 
to her very welcome indeed, when from home 
she got a little card. 

She went back to the old toils to try to gain 
power to stand on her own feet, for there at 
least, she could wash and have plenty to eat. 

For years she tried many times, she silently 
cried for an easier road; but she never once 
questioned her present fate, nor shifted her 
load. 



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CHAPTER EIGHT. 

It was all work, very little fun. 

The clouds were dark, there was little sun. 

Her work had been well begun. 

Patiently day by day she went on her way, 
silently thinking, having very little to say. Her 
duties she did well, she didn't know why, in fact 
no one could tell. Oft times hasty words she 
would speak but it was when she was tired and 
weak. 

Her burden was very great, all looked as 
though 'twould be such an unhappy fate. She 
didn't know then as she knows now, it's never 
too late. 

No one had time to show her how, 'twas in- 
deed a lonely and a rough old road she had to 
plow. Her friends were not of the others choice 
and they didn't know in selecting them she 
should have any voice. She loved them dearly, 
she trusted them all, but she never could have 
them nor on them call. 



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One by one they scattered, she lost not a 
friend; they stand ready now their assistance 
to lend. Thus far the friendship they had never 
shattered. What others said, they knew her, and 
it never mattered. 

She had never known what it meant to read, 
so into this pastime, she we did lead. She loved 
her books, they gave her comfort and cheer, 
they told her of sorrows that others had had 
who had friends who were near and dear. 
Over these struggles she she'd many a sympa- 
thetic tear, but she didn't know that the time for 
her to do the same over her own was so near. 

The first break in the family came, from the 
first, things never were the same. 

They remembered him. They knew he had 
gone, but they didn't know that spiritually he 
was not very strong. The day came at last 
when the little girl had more than she could 
bear. She went out, she sought for help every- 
where, when at last she turned to her old help 
and comforter, — silent prayer. In this she could 
tell all, she could pour out to loving ears, the 
seething, boiling torture that was within, not 



48 The One Right Way. 

because she had, but because others did sin. She 
had tried so hard to help them win, and it was 
here that her sorrow did begin. 

For them surely she had done her best. There 
was nothing now she did that was right. All 
that was said and done to her was not to make 
things more bright. There was one on this 
earth to whom she felt very grateful and each 
time a request was made she granted the same, 
and the love was never permitted to fade. 

When others came into this home and said of 
our little friend, "her best friend she did leave 
alone." "Hadn't treated her right." "Hadn't 
tried to make her life, to the best of her ability, 
very bright." "Had taken all she could get," — 
they listened. It was the saddest blow with 
which our little friend had met. 

She said not a word, she knew not what had 
been said nor what the old friend had heard, but 
when this friend did say, as she stood only a 
little distance away, "you have never done any 
thing for me." She longed to tell her some day 
she would be better able to see, but instead, she 
bowed her head, "I have never done anything 



The One Right Way. 49 

for you/' was all that she did say, and sorrow- 
fully walked away. 

She went to her office, there at least she could 
find a friend. It was a mercy to be able to work. 
Everyone was more than willing their assistance 
to lend. 

She was absorbed in her sorrowful thoughts. 
She longed to be alone, for thus at least, no 
cruelties should be shown. She lived on prayer, 
'twas her constant thought. Oh thank God such 
comfort is given, it don't have to be bought. 

If we ask we shall receive, but first of all in 
God we must believe. If we don't do right, be 
it here or there, we shall have to be led from the 
darkness into the light, — we must try with all 
our might. 

We must not only live for ourselves but we 
must live for others, be they friends, strangers, 
sisters, brothers, fathers or mothers. 

If by them we have been turned out, it is they, 
not you, who will have to turn in their path 
about. We cannot trample heedlessly under foot 
unless we ourselves shall be forsook. 

It is the teachings of very long ago, and God 



50. The One Right Way. 

has said that it is right it has to be so. Ye, 
everyone this should know so ye can take heed, 
for if we don't the punishment shall be great 
indeed. 

Some might believe what others have to say; 
but they shall encounter One who won't some 
day. If ye haven't done right ye shall be any- 
thing but bright. 

If ye shall do right and for what ye need, 
ye'll ask for in prayer, we shall have comfort, 
we shall have help everywhere. We must seek 
and we must find, we must help and we must be 
kind, but remember, the other fellow's actions, by 
us, must not be defined. We can suggest a way but 
whether they shall do it or not is for them to say. 

We shall have help, it is always ,nigh, we shall 
get help and comfort from on high. 

We must pray for those who have gone before, 
we must do this and we must do more. I know 
it now, I never knew it before. 

We must do all we can, so that we can be 
God's messengers on this land, for that is why 
we are here, it is to take this stand : Trust in God 
and have no fear. 



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CHAPTER NINE. 

She was in the darkness, now she dwells in the light. 
It is because she did what's right. It was an awful 

fight. 
No one on earth seemed to know she could win. 
They were all too prone to say she did sin. 

She had trusted all her life in prayer, she 
tried to do good everywhere. Very badly she 
often fared but oft times she'd try to pass it off 
and say she never cared. They were permitted 
to go and she told them so. 

Whatever she had, she had always shared; 
but to be free with them, she never dared. She 
knew they meant to be kind. As to the rest by 
her, it was never defined. 

There was no one to whom she could turn. 
But Oh ! how to do right, she was so anxious to 
learn. She knew she had had what she had 
asked for in prayer, but sometimes the burdens 
did indeed seem greater than she could beai. 



52 The One Right Way. 

She knew at times she had been bad, but she 
never felt very happy over it nor said, "I'm 
glad." Sometimes she had to wield a blow that 
they might be able to see that no further they 
could go. It was thus that she used her might 
so as to help them to do what was right. 

The way over which she had come seemed to 
be long indeed, a little comfort is all that she 
did need. There was nothing, in all her life, 
for any one that she had done, so she was told 
she had to forget them all and await the rising 
of the Son. This gave her comfort and cheer; 
she didn't know she had won. She didn't know 
that well she had done. While her work wasn't 
fintehed, well she had done, long since it had 
been begun. 

Her strength now dwelt within, for she had 
conquered ; she had driven out the sin. She was 
a child of God, now she had to help others that 
they too might win. 

She got her help from the ones who had gone 
before, she had remembered the good that they 
had done, she asked and knew no more. 

She dwelt not with the ones above, though 



The One Right Way. 53 

they gave her comfort and strength and love. 
She dwells now with her fellow man, she says: 
"I must see and do all I can that they too shall 
take this stand." 

This comfort was felt, because in sorrow she 
humbly knelt and asked for help in prayer. There 
was One above to whom she did dare. It gave 
her courage, it freed her from care. Now she 
knows that it is everywhere. It was sent from 
above because the ones on earth were dearly 
loved. He struggled to save us from sin and it 
was thus that He did win. 

He wept over the ones who didn't seem to 
want help from on high, but He said: "When 
they are willing, they shall always find help that 
is nigh." 

This was written in the old book in which 
so many have looked, they realized not what 
it did say, if they had, surely they'd have tried 
this way. 

We have today, we have tomorrow, we have 
got to overcome all sorrow, if we have not suffi- 
cient strength, then of our fellow man let us 
borrow. He might be able to say a word of cheer 



54 The One Right Way. 

because he is a friend who is near and dear. 

It is an earthly tie, They are the messengers 
sent to us from on high, that they might be good 
and for this happy end be permitted to try. 

It must be help to uplift. The privilege is a 
grant gift. Let them know that it they can't buy, 
it is help that has been sent that they have found 
was nigh. 

We on earth call them a friend, let them their 
assistance lend, it might help you, it might help 
them, their ways to mend. Ye need not ask from 
whence they came ; whether they be a patient 
plodder or one of fortune or one of fame. He 
loves us all just the same. 

Our pathway must be built on a foundation 
of rock, let us try to line it with clover, to do 
it, for God, we must be a roaver. E'en though 
it take us the wide world over. 

We might start in the city or the valley to 
gain the mountain top; till we get there, let 
there be no rest, we must not stop. It is then 
we can look back and say: "I have done my 
best." It matters not what they say, at least, 
I have tried to travel in the one right way. 



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Ye might think that the mills of the Gods 
grind slowly. Let me say, before we can be 
very high, we must be very lowly. 

We must not say what the others have done. 
It is not thus that we can say we have won. 

Ye might find ye have a rough old road; but 
remember, if ye ask, ye'll be given strength to 
carry the load. 

The harder that has been the way, far greater 
shall be thy victory on that great day. May it 
be, we shall all be glad to hear what He shall 
have to say. 

Your work must be begun, 
There shall be another rising of the Son. 
Let His verdict be, well ye have done. 
Your race, you have run. It you have won. 

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